Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the House, its 90 Republicans were naturally lined up solidly against the plan. So was a strong Democratic anti-Roosevelt bloc led by New York's Tammanyite John O'Connor, Chairman of the Rules Committee which stopped the President's Wages-&-Hours Bill last summer. Nonetheless...
1) killing undistributed profits tax entirely, substituting a flat 18% levy on all corporate income, with exemptions for corporations earning less than $25,000; 2) killing the House's complex capital gains tax, substituting a flat 15% on capital gains arising from the sale of assets held over 18...
While most of the press inveighed against the bill, a thoroughly well-organized Administration bloc kept it moving forward in the Senate. When Missouri's Bennett Clark and several collaborators laboriously brought in 20 amendments, most of them excepting specific Government agencies from Presidential tampering, they were voted down...
"Then with a series of heavy crashes, one following another as the Sutherland crossed her enemy's stern and each section of guns bore in turn, she fired her broadside into her . . . with every shot tearing its destructive course from end to end of the ship. .. . . That was the...
In Chicago last week, on trial for his life, Lumberjack Seadlund gave a fascinated jury the details of the whole extraordinary story. He and Gray had taken Ross first to a wooden dugout near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to...